Word: raincoated
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...clump of dark hair overhangs eyes screwed tight in a lopsided squint, a brow that is permanently furrowed and a leathery puss smudged with unshavable stubble. With stocky shoulders hunched forward at a 45° angle, he looks like an ambulatory cypress stump in baggy brown pants. And the raincoat. The raincoat is an oversized, unhung affair in the last stages of decomposition, scarred and seasoned with the grease of a thousand fingers, its hems frayed and stringy, its pockets attached more by habit than by thread...
Although the false exit, followed by the innocently lethal "one last question," was dreamed up by Levinson and Link', Falk has so perfected the business that it has become a Columbo trademark, often occurring more than once in a single scene. Trademark No. 1, the magnificently grubby raincoat, was Falk's own stroke. The coat is his, bought in New York for a European trip years ago and stuffed away in a trunk until he fished it out to wear over the studio wardrobe's baggy brown suit. Falk worries like a mother hen over the coat...
...filming, as always, is devoid of innovation but adequate for his task; he exploits slow zooms and cut-ins to create or relieve tension, and makes most shots as simple as possible. Unfortunately, a few simple mistakes mar the film: footage showing Caine moving a misplaced red raincoat was inadvertently included; pool balls are racked up in the middle of a game; and a camera crewman's shadow hangs ominously over a window...
There was no joy in Castelfranco Veneto. The northern Italian town's major industry, the Confitex raincoat and cloth factory, which employed 1,650 workers, was about to close. The company was nearly $20 million in debt and losses were mounting daily. Lamented the parliamentary representative from that district: "For us, Confitex's closing will be worse than an earthquake...
...brutality. Cale, Moore's half brother, had been serving time in the Tennessee State Penitentiary for grand larceny, and was a recent escapee from a work release center. The trio managed to get past Southern agents by the old and obvious device of concealing their weapons in a raincoat and passing it back and forth...